Middle East Policy Response

You know I am beginning to think you are right. I mean we went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq with the mindset and attitude that we can set up a democratic government, not Islamic based government, meaning leave religion out of it, especially the deadly Islamic religion. With the news that came out of Afghanistan about an Arab who switched from Islam to Christianity getting the death penalty from their government, I began changing my mind and doubt whether we can actually implement what George Bush wants: spread democracy in the Middle East. After all our effort to instill democracy in Afghanistan, they went back to a Taliban style of government.

Maybe the faith is too strong. What people there want is an Islamic based govenment and there's nothing we can do to prevent that. Islam is popular and people there are very strongly devoted to it.

We should have consulted a Middle East authority, an expert first, before going to war there. We have spent so much money, so much, and people getting killed. We could have spent the money on some other things. It might be a hopeless case. People there do not want democracy and there's nothing we can do about it.

John R

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Here is a middle east policy that every non-muslim nation must adopt to bring lasting peaceand prosperity to the world. Muslims love their religion deeply and wish to live under islamic rule, they see no benefit in democracy.

Muslims also consider their land sacred and off limits to non-muslims. Non-muslims setting foot on their land is considered descecration by Mr. Bin laden and other islamic scholars. All this bloodshed, 911 and 2 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq could have been easily avoided if we had only listened to their reasonable sentiments.

Non-muslims countries must change their middle east policy and listen to millions of muslims seeking a fair policy by exchanging non-muslims living in middleeast with muslims living in their countries.

Doing so will win heart's and minds of muslims from the middle east. All muslims leaving non-muslim countries must be adequately compensated for leaving behind their property etc. Moderate muslims living in west who do not wish to leave should be converted to islam and safely paradropped over their native countries along with their muslim wives and muslim kids.Only muslims who have lost their arms fighting for non-muslim armies must be treated as an exception.

Muslims living in their house of god with contributions from HARRAK, Bader and other scholars can build a prosperous region that the west can look at with awe and wonder.Non-Muslims in west can go about living their materialistic lives and hope to emulate the middle east.

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